Cloud Audit

Cost Effectiveness

Managing the cost of your Cloud deployments can be difficult. One of the biggest advantages of Cloud is the ability to only pay for what you need and cut out unnecessary support infrastructure. However, maintaining these cost savings over time can be tough when the Public Cloud costing models and service offerings are constantly being updated and unbounded infrastructure creep starts to eat up all the cost savings you see when you first move into the Cloud.

WinMill can help you navigate the public Cloud costing maze to ensure that the services you are running, and the instance types you have picked are the most cost effective for your specific technical and business needs. We can also help you find Cloud native services to replace 3rd party services which often require additional support infrastructure and licensing costs. WinMill can also help you identify opportunities to move services from more classic (and expensive) always on virtual servers to managed services which allow you to stop having to manage an OS.

When it comes to choosing resource sizing many organizations choose virtual servers or services based on what their traditional servers required without realizing how much more efficient compute power in the cloud can be. This results in an over or miss provisioned set of resources that unnecessarily drive up costs. WinMill can help streamline your Cloud infrastructure to ensure that you are only paying for what you really need. WinMill can also review and suggest changes to the pricing models chosen in the past that may need updating. Re-examining your pricing models can often save you 20 to 30 percent in hosting costs over the course of a year.